Infant Salvation and Confessional Revision (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Infant Salvation and Confessional Revision The Southern Presbyterian Church has been wrestling for a long time with the matter of the revision of the Westminster Confession, in one form or another. First, there was a call for a revision of the proof-texts attached to the various sections by way of giving the scriptural basis for these statements. This has taken several years to finish, but the work is illogical and incomplete because it was done on the understanding that the text of the Confession itself was not to be touched; so where statements were not capable of being supported by Scripture proof there ordinarily occurs a blank instead of such irrelevant texts as formerly stood in many places for proof. The proof-text committee made no recommendation of change in the Confession. But the fact that any statements are incapable of proof of some kind calls for the revision of the Confession itself, which in its very nature is simply a declaration to the world of what we believe the Bible to teach. Only one question of revision of the text of the Confession has so far been before the church at large, and that is the revision of the third section of chapter ten, commonly called the "elect infant clause." Our church has wrestled with this question for a number of years, but seems little nearer a solution of it than when the agitation began. The anti-revisionists insist that the word "elect" shall stand, occupying the inconsistent and even contradictory attitude of holding that they believe in the salvation of all dying infants, but that the Bible does not definitely teach that all such are saved. But a creed should contain only what we are able to reasonably support by Scripture proof. They fail to see that it is inconsistent to talk of an elect class of dying infants, because an elect, that is, limited, class necessarily excludes the counterpart remnant of the non-elect class. It may be esteemed only a question of doubt, or we may say lack of knowledge, respecting this non-elect class which is thus left out, but it is understood to embrace the children of the heathen; and the application of the word "elect" as a limiting term is to the children of the church as contradistinguished from the children of the heathen. But since elect and non-elect are necessarily counterparts, a professed knowledge of one must imply a corresponding knowledge of the other; and if we are ignorant of the latter class we must of necessity be also of the former. The idea that we have a knowledge of an elect class of dying infants is therefore a simple delusion, and it is inconsistent in the anti-revisionists to demand absolute proof of universal infant salvation as a necessary prelude to the elimination of the word "elect." If they know nothing of a non-elect class they know nothing of an elect class, and the Bible is as silent about the one as about the other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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